To cluster or not to cluster...
Hi all, I have just completed a migration from vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 by swinging all of my 4.1 hosts from the vCenter service under windows to the new vCenter appliance VM. I have 4 hosts (All...
View ArticleNvidia Quadro
I assume that many of you with exictement have read through all news in vSphere 5.1 What cought my eye in View point of view was this: "Improved 3D Graphics Support– (View Only) – hardware...
View ArticlevExpert: Craig Kilborn
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNameCraig KilbornLocationNorthamptonUnited KingdomShort DescriptionSolutions Architect designing infrastructures on...
View ArticleVMWare Products and Services
VMWare has so many products and services that it's hard to keep track of what does what. Several cloud providers give users the ability to provision their own virtual machines and I wondering if VMWare...
View Article1 vCPU is being used at 200%, How is this possible ?
Hi all, I monitored the performance of a VM having 4 vCPUs, each vCPU was having clock speed of 2.5 GHz. vSphere reported the performance as follow: core 0 : 5205 MHzcore 1,2,3 ~= 1000 MHz Overall CPU...
View ArticlePanic with VMWare Fusion 5.0.3 and Mac OS X 10.8.4
I had a perfectly fine working VMWare fusion setup with OS X hosts, for development and testing. Since I upgraded from Mac OS X 10.8.3 to Mac Os X 10.8.4, my computer panics as soon as I start a...
View ArticleAdmission Control Using Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved Policy
Hi all, I want to understand something: I have a VMware HA Cluster with 2 identical nodes. Normally, I should reserve50%of resources (CPU and memory)at leastasfailover capability.This would meanthatif...
View ArticleSome kind of routing or security problem between hosts
I am having a problem and need some advice tracking it down. I'll try to give an overview of my setup and what the problem is. We have some software that talks on 3 different networks. Op-Primary,...
View Articlemy newly created vmfs volume is only version 3.46?
Hello, just trying to understand what is happening. I just created a new VMFS volume on my 5.0 (build 914586) and when I look at the version in vCenter it says that its version 3.46? When I look up...
View ArticleESXi Compliance - Custom Template - Rules vs Template
I've asked a similar question in the past, but concerning creating a custom compliance template for our company... It was recommended that upon running a compliance check with the default ESXi...
View Articlehow to migrate View pools to a new datastore?
View 4.1 - Have all pools on the old NetApp using FC block storage. Want to move them to the new NetApp on NFS storage. What procedures will we need to execute to get this done?
View ArticleConverter standalone 5.1 crashes host on retrieving source machine information
Hi all, I'm kinda stuck atm. We are using 2 ESXi servers. I'd like to convert the servers of 1 ESXi to another.I'm using Converter Standalone 5.1. The source server is running ESXi 4.0, the destination...
View ArticleUpgrading tools on Windows 8 asks to stop VMWare services and forces a logoff
When I upgrade VMWare Tools in my Windows 8 virtual machines (both 32 and 64-bit), the installer first asks to stop some VMWare services, then while installing the drivers logs me off forcefully (one...
View ArticlevExpert: Tom Hollingsworth
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNameTom HollingsworthLocationNorman, OKUnited StatesShort DescriptionNetworking nerd and virtualization evangilist....
View ArticlevExpert: Giuseppe Guglielmetti
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNameGiuseppe GuglielmettiLocationPiacenzaItalyShort DescriptionSr. System Engineer specializing in Virtualization and...
View ArticleVsphere data protection
Hi all.I have install two vsphere data protection vm and I note some problems during backup windows.In the log of virtual machine I see message like that:"Backup scheduler is not running" and after 10...
View ArticleWhat happens to last restore point if retention period is reached
Hi, Anyone know what happens with the newest version of VDP if backupscan't be made for one reason or other and retention period is reachedand backup is still active and scheduled. First version of VDP...
View ArticleSSO upgrade question
We have two sites running 5.0 that I need to upgrade to 5.1.After reviewing the upgrade documentation I have a question.We are not currently using Vcenter linked mode but I want to deploy it. Based on...
View ArticleYou may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine
I keep getting this message when I try to power on a VM into ESXi, which is running inside VMware Workstation 6.5. I'm doing this to test everything before formatting my production server and...
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